The University of British Columbia

In this edition:

• Putting students to work
• Summer camps: offerings include novel options like health and technology
• How to grow the perfect tomato
• Making green roofs greener
• Canadians and Americans are more similar than assumed
• UBC Dentistry team Serves Penelakut First Nation
• At the root of the problem
• Wood revival at CIRS
• Redrawing UBC: Research maps knowledge

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In this edition:

• Terrorism and Canada’s refugee system
• Library digitizes rare Japanese maps
• Students fuel sustainable solutions
• Tipping point: How CIRS will transform building water use
• Dating and intimacy in the digital era
• Prof. documents 
lead poisoning 
in El Salvador
• Helping island farmers get to market
• Med students 
serve refugees
• Turning your 
genes on and off
• Outtakes

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In this edition:

• UBC adopts grad’s energy makeover project
• Weighing forest conservation and need
• Future vet champions animal welfare
• Research a dental hygiene degree highlight
• Social enterprise meets high fashion
• A role for gardens in health care
• Friends celebrate law degrees
• A passion for health care policy
• From the classroom to Afghanistan
• Building a career to help youth
• Bumping it up a level
• Human Kinetics at UBC’s Okanagan campus graduates first cohort
• Max Jones makes PhD history at UBC
• Behind the scenes at graduation
• President’s Service Award for Excellence
• CLASS2011

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In this edition:

• Lending a voice
• Creating a theory and a degree
• Heart disease high among immigrant group
• Improving dental ergonomics
• Wrongful conviction
• High school students solve UBC murder mystery
• New doctors settle throughout B.C.
• The buck stops here
• Green features come to life
• Investigating violence against Aboriginal women
• A home that doesn’t need heat
• Outtakes

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In this edition:

• Canada’s man in Asia
• Forests sustain those living with HIV/AIDS
• Vacation blues: Global tourism can harm communities
• You are the network
• How can parents prevent teenagers from dropping out of high school?
• UBC’s newest school gets a new director
• Crocodile tears? Facial clues reveal fake or sincere remorse
• Diet, heart disease and diabetes: What’s the connection?
• Reflections on academic life
• Celebrate Research Week March 4 – 11 2011

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In this edition:

• First gene cloned at UBC’s Okanagan campus
• Mapping the power of sunshine
• Helping teachers motivate kids to move
• Portal profiles UBC’s growing Aboriginal community
• The value of vitamins
• The human touch: UBC to study green building inhabitants
• Postdoc zeros in on genes linked to psychiatric disorders
• Student discovers allure of rural practice
• Outtakes

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In this edition:

• Intelligent Space
• Municipal service robots
• The medical “tricorder”
• Low-cost personal genome analysis
• Restorative Buildings
• Imaging Genetics – the ability to foresee brain disease?
• Powerful “rare-earth” dental magnets
• Magic Biomarkers
• Telling stories together, one tweet at a time
• Updates from 2006
• The Next Big Thing in 2011, and beyond: January UBC Reports preview

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In this edition:

• Dentist cures root canal blues
• UBC pioneers child rights monitoring
• UBC makes mental health a priority
• Bhangra delivers safe farming message
• COMM 101 – Tweet, click, blog: A new way to learn business
• mHealth: The next big thing in global health, and at home?
• UBC Library and the digital future
• Reflections on academic life Trapping antimatter “tremendously exciting” for Prof. Walter Hardy
• Expanded parental leave: Are children better off?

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In this edition:

• Let there be light
• Building safer roads
• A new breed of road engineers
• Dean of inspiration
• Diet anxiety can weaken bones
• Protecting HIV-exposed babies
• Cancer’s toll on child survivors
• Researchers create video-highlighting tool
• Growing inequality: Prof sees warning signs in Canada
• Corporate criminal intent

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In this edition:

• Staking your office territory
• Researchers find evidence for complementary therapies
• A safe port in a storm
• Turning patients into professors
• Celebrate Learning
• Putting it in writing
• Microscopes without borders
• Re-thinking the rickshaw
• Buchanan re-born
• Forest of clean fuel
• UBC cultivates vision for farm
• UBC’s United Way Campaign

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